 14 May 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, checksums for midas data files
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I am adding LZ4 and LZO compression the mlogger and as part of this work, I would like to add
computation of checksums for the midas files.
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 14 May 2015, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, checksums for midas data files
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> Any thoughts on this?
We use binary midas files now for ~20 years and never felt the necessity to put any checksums or even encryption on these files. The reason for that is |
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15 May 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, checksums for midas data files
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> > Any thoughts on this?
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> We use binary midas files now for ~20 years and never felt the necessity to put any checksums or even encryption on these files ...
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05 Oct 2016, Lee Pool, Suggestion, checksums for midas data files
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Hi
> On one side, such checksums help me confirm that uncompressed data contents is the same as original
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13 Oct 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, checksums for midas data files
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Confirmed, this is a bug in mlogger. It should be creating *2* files, one with the before-compression checksum and one with the after-compression checksum.
At
least both checksums are written to midas.log, so you can grep them from there. K.O.
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13 Mar 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, checksums for midas data files
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> Confirmed, this is a bug in mlogger. It should be creating *2* files, one with the before-compression checksum and one with the after-compression checksum.
At
> least both checksums are written to midas.log, so you can grep them from there. K.O.
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13 Mar 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, improved mhttpd sounds
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I reworked the alarm sounds in mhttpd - now you can turn off all sounds without disabling the
alarm system for everybody.
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27 Feb 2017, William Moore, Suggestion, analyzer failing to load ODB parameters
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Hi,
I am attempting to compile and run analysis code on a completely different,
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15 Feb 2017, NguyenMinhTruong, Bug Report, increase event buffer size
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Dear all,
I have problem in event buffer size.
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16 Feb 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, increase event buffer size
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> I have problem in event buffer size.
>
> When run MIDAS, I got error "total event size (1307072) larger than buffer size
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20 Feb 2017, NguyenMinhTruong, Bug Report, increase event buffer size
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I am sorry for my late reply
memory in my PC is 16 GB
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20 Feb 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, increase event buffer size
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> memory in my PC is 16 GB
You can safely go to buffer size 100 Mbytes or more.
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20 Feb 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, increase event buffer size
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> > memory in my PC is 16 GB
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> You can safely go to buffer size 100 Mbytes or more.
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15 Feb 2017, NguyenMinhTruong, Bug Report, increase event buffer size
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Dear all,
I have problem in event buffer size.
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14 Feb 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd.js split into midas.js, mhttpd.js and obsolete.js
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As discussed before, the midas omnibus javascript file mhttpd.js has been split into three pieces:
midas.js - midas "public api" for building web pages that interact with midas
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08 Sep 2016, Amy Roberts, Bug Report, control characters not sanitized by json_write - can cause JSON.parse of mhttpd result to fail
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I've recently run into issues when using JSON.parse on ODB keys containing
8-bit data.
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30 Sep 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, control characters not sanitized by json_write - can cause JSON.parse of mhttpd result to fail
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> I've recently run into issues when using JSON.parse on ODB keys containing
> 8-bit data.
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25 Oct 2016, Thomas Lindner, Bug Report, control characters not sanitized by json_write - can cause JSON.parse of mhttpd result to fail
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> > I've recently run into issues when using JSON.parse on ODB keys containing
> > 8-bit data.
>
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01 Dec 2016, Thomas Lindner, Bug Report, control characters not sanitized by json_write - can cause JSON.parse of mhttpd result to fail 
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> > I've recently run into issues when using JSON.parse on ODB keys containing
> > 8-bit data.
>
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15 Jan 2017, Thomas Lindner, Bug Report, control characters not sanitized by json_write - can cause JSON.parse of mhttpd result to fail
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> > In other words, non-UTF-8 strings are following non-IEEE-754 floating point values into oblivion - as
> > we do not check the TID_FLOAT and TID_DOUBLE is valid IEEE-754 values, we should not check
> > that TID_STRING is valid UTF-8.
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23 Jan 2017, Thomas Lindner, Bug Report, control characters not sanitized by json_write - can cause JSON.parse of mhttpd result to fail
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> At Konstantin's suggestion, I committed the function I found for checking if a string was UTF-8 compatible to
> odb.c. The function is currently not used; I commented out a proposed use in db_create_key. Experts can decide
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30 Jan 2017, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, control characters not sanitized by json_write - can cause JSON.parse of mhttpd result to fail
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>
> > At Konstantin's suggestion, I committed the function I found for checking if a string was UTF-8 compatible to
> > odb.c. The function is currently not used; I commented out a proposed use in db_create_key. Experts can decide
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01 Feb 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, control characters not sanitized by json_write - can cause JSON.parse of mhttpd result to fail
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>
> I see you put some switches into the environment ("MIDAS_INVALID_STRING_IS_OK"). Do you think this is a good idea? Most variables are
> sitting in the ODB (/experiment/xxx), except those which cannot be in the ODB because we need it before we open the ODB, like MIDAS_DIR.
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01 Feb 2017, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, control characters not sanitized by json_write - can cause JSON.parse of mhttpd result to fail
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> Some additional explanation.
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> Time passed, the world turned, and the current web-compatible standard for text strings is UTF-8 encoded Unicode, see
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15 Dec 2016, Kevin Giovanetti, Bug Report, midas.h error
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creating a frontend on MAC Sierra OSX 10
include the midas.h file and when compiling with XCode I get an error based on
this entry in the midas.h include
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15 Dec 2016, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, midas.h error
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> creating a frontend on MAC Sierra OSX 10
> include the midas.h file and when compiling with XCode I get an error based on
> this entry in the midas.h include
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01 Feb 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, midas.h error
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>
> If you compile with the included Makefile, you will see a
>
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01 Feb 2017, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, midas.h error
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> >
> > If you compile with the included Makefile, you will see a
> >
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14 Oct 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Javascript based run start and stop pages.
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I switched mhttpd to use the new javascript based run start and stop pages.
There are two new html pages:
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05 Dec 2016, Thomas Lindner, Info, Javascript based run start and stop pages.
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> I switched mhttpd to use the new javascript based run start and stop pages.
One initial complaint: the transition.html page doesn't seem to deal well with a frontend program using
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01 Feb 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Javascript based run start and stop pages.
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> > I switched mhttpd to use the new javascript based run start and stop pages.
>
> One initial complaint: the transition.html page doesn't seem to deal well with a frontend program using
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01 Feb 2017, Stefan Ritt, Info, Javascript based run start and stop pages.
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> > > I switched mhttpd to use the new javascript based run start and stop pages.
> >
> > One initial complaint: the transition.html page doesn't seem to deal well with a frontend program using
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01 Dec 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas wiki updated to mediawiki 1.27.1
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midas wiki at https://midas.triumf.ca/MidasWiki/index.php/Main_Page
was updated to MediaWiki version 1.27.1, the current MediaWiki LTS release.
Everything should work as before, but if you see any problems or anomalies, please report
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24 Oct 2016, Tim Gorringe, Bug Report, problem with error code DB_NO_MEMORY from db_open_record() call when establish additional hotlinks
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Hi Midas forum,
I'm having a problem with odb hotlinks after increasing sub-directories in an
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25 Oct 2016, Tim Gorringe, Bug Report, problem with error code DB_NO_MEMORY from db_open_record() call when establish additional hotlinks
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oOne additional comment. I was able to trace the setting of the error code DB_NO_MEMORY
to a call to the db_add_open_record() by mserver that is initiated during the start-up
of my frontend via an RPC call. I checked with a debug printout that I have indeed
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04 Nov 2016, Thomas Lindner, Bug Report, problem with error code DB_NO_MEMORY from db_open_record() call when establish additional hotlinks
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Hi Tim,
I reproduced your problem and then managed to go through a procedure to increase the number
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25 Nov 2016, Thomas Lindner, Bug Report, problem with error code DB_NO_MEMORY from db_open_record() call when establish additional hotlinks
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The procedure I wrote seemed to work for Tim too, so I added a page to the wiki about it here:
https://midas.triumf.ca/MidasWiki/index.php/FAQ
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14 Oct 2016, Luka Pavelic, Forum, Wiener PCIVME link
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Hello,
I'm trying to make Wiener PCIVME link work with MIDAS.
In documentation/VME dirvers/ it's saying: "wevmemm.c PCI/VME Wiener board
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14 Oct 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Wiener PCIVME link
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> Hello,
> I'm trying to make Wiener PCIVME link work with MIDAS.
> In documentation/VME dirvers/ it's saying: "wevmemm.c PCI/VME Wiener board
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14 Oct 2016, Pierre-Andre Amaudruz, Forum, Wiener PCIVME link
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> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to make Wiener PCIVME link work with MIDAS.
> > In documentation/VME dirvers/ it's saying: "wevmemm.c PCI/VME Wiener
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13 Oct 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, new odbinit utility
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odbinit is a new utility program to initialize new ODB and to recover from corrupted ODB.
Right now, midas odb has some strange properties different from typical behavior of other
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06 Jul 2016, Zhe Wang, Suggestion, Frontend crush on high event rate
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Dear friends,
We have some questions on using midas.
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09 Jul 2016, Zhe Wang, Suggestion, Frontend crush on high event rate
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Dear friends,
I may add a little more information.
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10 Jul 2016, Zhe Wang, Suggestion, Frontend crush on high event rate
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Dear friends,
In case anyone need the source code, it is attached.
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13 Jul 2016, Zhe Wang, Suggestion, Frontend crush on high event rate
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Somehow I don't understand why people's reply is only in my mail box.
So I pasted them here. I hope they don't mind and these information may be useful for others.
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13 Jul 2016, Zhe Wang, Suggestion, Frontend crush on high event rate
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Suggestion from John and my reply.
> We have achieved very high rates, but only with some care.
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13 Jul 2016, Zhe Wang, Suggestion, Frontend crush on high event rate
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More suggestions from John and my reply.
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30 Sep 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, Frontend crush on high event rate
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>
> More suggestions from John and my reply.
>
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23 Aug 2016, Andreas Suter, Forum, Alarm/Warning
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Midas has a nice alarm system. I am wondering whether it is easily possible to
get the Alarm/Warning banner also on top of custom pages?! |
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23 Aug 2016, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Alarm/Warning
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> Midas has a nice alarm system. I am wondering whether it is easily possible to
> get the Alarm/Warning banner also on top of custom pages?!
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30 Sep 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Alarm/Warning
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> > Midas has a nice alarm system. I am wondering whether it is easily possible to
> > get the Alarm/Warning banner also on top of custom pages?!
>
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09 Sep 2016, Amy Roberts, Suggestion, AJAX jmsg "get messages since t" ability - add to docs?
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I recently needed to watch the Midas messages for a particular error - and
thus needed a command to "get all the messages since a time t".
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30 Sep 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, AJAX jmsg "get messages since t" ability - add to docs?
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> I recently needed to watch the Midas messages for a particular error - and
> thus needed a command to "get all the messages since a time t".
>
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13 Jun 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mongoose v6.4 is ready for use
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latest version of mongoose web server library (v6.4) is now implemented in midas. To try it out, edit
the Makefile, comment-out USE_MONGOOSE4, uncomment USE_MONGOOSE6, make clean,
make.
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13 Sep 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mongoose v6.4 is ready for use
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> latest version of mongoose web server library (v6.4) is now implemented in midas.
A number of bugs were found in the mongoose v6 implementation of HTTP digest authentication:
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26 Sep 2016, Wes Gohn, Info, mongoose v6.4 is ready for use
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Since updating to the most recent midas commit, we get the following error if we try running mhttpd without su privileges:
>mhttpd -e CR --http 8081
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26 Sep 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mongoose v6.4 is ready for use
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> Since updating to the most recent midas commit, we get the following error if we try running mhttpd without su privileges:
>
> >mhttpd -e CR --http 8081
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10 Mar 2016, Thomas Lindner, Info, New rootana forum | rootana web display tools
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We have started a new elog for discussions of the ROOTANA MIDAS analyzer package
[1], which is used at TRIUMF and elsewhere for quick displays of MIDAS data.
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16 Sep 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, New rootana forum | rootana web display tools
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> We have started a new elog for discussions of the ROOTANA MIDAS analyzer package
Posting there is almost like talking to oneself - barely anybody is subscribed, not even me.
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08 Aug 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Release, Merged - new pure html web pages: programs and alarms.
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The code for the new pure html and javascript web pages was merged into main midas.
In this release, the "programs" and "alarms" pages are implemented as html files, see
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13 Jun 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, example ssl certificate removed
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I removed the example ssl certificate from the midas git repository (ssl_cert.pem). Now every midas
installation must generate their own certificate - because to have any security at all each encryption
private key has to be unique (and it has to be secret).
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